teo_audio Thanks. Is there a special way of doing OCC that that close connection to the inventor would affirm? Or is it a generalized process now?Just that familiarity with the meaning of it, at a root level, for a near lifetime, may convey, over time, a decent understanding of the meaning and context of a cable design and build.
As in: not a late coming dilettante prancing around for your money with slick advertising and shiny bits to attract the crow in people. Everyone has to make their stuff look good and it’s a nebulous line that is wobbly, wandering, and ephemeral.
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Advertisements and the like, as fundamental costs, that are baked into the price of the price of the product, that the end buyer pays.
EG Joebob makes $500k in advertisements per year to attract people to knowing his stuff exists, and to get them to reconnoiter the purposely sexy bits (and presentation) that don’t make the item one whit better. I buy one of his components. In that, I finance Joebob’s further attempts to make others aware of Joebobs components, and none of that aspect/part of the money spent by me ---is in the product. eg a rolling ’fame’ machine built out of recognition of it’s existence, and not much else. I took the time to listen and in the act of that.. financed more bible thumpers to go door to door, for Joebob’s furthering in life. It’s nearly a goddarned pyramid scheme, due to how humans are wired. Mediocrity and money rules the system, not quality in audio.
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Problem is, how does one make good money in a low enough amount of time (cash per year, etc) ...to be successfully feeding a family, in the realm of high end audio? Tough question. I don’t have an answer. Where the shiny crow attraction part can’t be avoided or separated from the customers as it is definitely there. Big time. Advertising works. Sadly.
I’m not saying one of these product is somehow better than the other, only that Audio Sensibility is not a johnny come lately, nor illiterate about audio, or cables. They are more well known in Canada, obviously. As for the over the top end of the pool, we know it when we see it.
There is only one speaker cable in existence that is literally not like the others, but it is also (unavoidably) stupidly priced. Oh well...